Let’s get this straight: Dave Wakeling is not a medical doctor. Nor is he a licensed physical therapist. But the founding singer/guitarist of The English Beat knows what works for the health and ...

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When the English Beat emerged in the late ’70s, the UK group fused punk rock brashness with old-school Jamaican ska beats. The results were striking and the band delivered hits “Mirror in the Bathroom ...

Dave Wakeling lives at the intersection of music and politics. Few songwriters blend relentlessly joyful sounds with poignant commentary as well as the longtime leader of the English Beat. The band ...

Any ’80s-era ska-revival fan worth his or her checkered glad rags remembers the English Beat’s cheerful way with a politically charged song — whether it called for peace, love, unity or Margaret ...

The following events are planned for the week ahead throughout the region: • The English Beat kicks off the weekend at the Keswick Theatre with a concert Thursday at 8 p.m. The English Beat (known ...

Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to the English Beat Marc Wasserman 284 Pages ISBN: # 979-8990026421 DiWulf Publishing2024 Fans of the English Beat, devoted or casual, may be somewhat disappointed ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The King of Ska, Dave Wakeling, was a founding member of pioneering 2-tone band the English Beat. Formed in Birmingham, England in 1978 as a response to the height of UK economic melt-down of the time ...

Roger Charlery, best known as Ranking Roger, singer of the widely influential U.K. group The Beat — known as The English Beat in the U.S. — died Tuesday afternoon, at 56. The singer was diagnosed with ...

Ska has its detractors and its aficionados, and both tend to do a disservice to the music's actual value. With its surface flash of bouncy rhythms and bright horns, ska very easily pulls you in or ...